With the economy coming to a stall, the Federal Government should remap Australia’s energy landscape, writes Tim Buckley. WE ARE IN unchartered conditions due to the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting global recession. Economic growth has slowed, the energy market has stalled, oil prices and the global stock market have crashed, and a virus without a vaccine...Read More

ZURICH, March 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — ThomasLloyd, the impact investor and provider of climate-related finance, has raised €339 million from clients through its sustainable investment solutions in the 2019 financial year, representing a considerable year-on-year (2018: €209 million) increase of no less than 63 per cent. The money acquired from clients came to the company...Read More

Environmental and governance factors are more easily quantifiable and applicable to investment strategies than social factors, but investors could be missing out on vital risk management tools, potential performance gains and growing client interest by marginalising the ‘S’ in ESG investing. Governance has long been a focus of investors when analysing investee companies, and in...Read More

    Downloadable Resources Open interactive popup Executive Summary (PDF-360KB) Full Report (PDF-3MB Advances in automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital technologies are changing the way we work, the activities we perform, and the skills we need to succeed. Catching this rapid transformation wave is of the utmost importance to ensure sustainable growth. Over the...Read More

When he became chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai announced that he was going to take a “weed whacker” to Obama-era regulations. So far, he’s kept his promise, and earned the internet’s ire for reversing the agency’s position on net neutrality. Pai defends his actions and explains how the U.S. can “win” everything...Read More

Russia’s Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) has announced the start of construction on a year-round fully autonomous, renewables and hydrogen-powered International Arctic Station (IAS) in the Land of Hope, in the foothills of the Polar Urals. The station will have a modular structure and rely on renewable energy sources and hydrogen fuel, without burning...Read More

A new way of making bone-replacement materials that allows for cells to grow around and inside them has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham. The team adopted a novel approach called chemobrionics, in which chemical components are controllably driven to react together in specific ways, enabling the self-assembly of intricate bio-inspired structures....Read More

  The historic launch of the new European Solar Orbiter helps foster a golden age for understanding our nearest star. On Sunday evening, a rocket lit up Florida’s nighttime sky as it ferried a spacecraft toward a first-of-its-kind adventure to the sun. Even though our home star smolders every day in our skies, humans have...Read More

AL ULA, Saudi Arabia — The Coachella art crowd had arrived in the Saudi desert, and chic caftans in head-turning colors outnumbered abayas on the sand. At a buffet ornamented with cantaloupes carved in the shape of flowers, waiters tended a fresh-squeezed juice station and rows of dainty canapés. Across the gold-and-russet sandstone canyon, the...Read More

Investing well is hard enough, and introducing your personal values into the mix only compounds the confusion. What matters most? How can I have the biggest impact? And am I a traitor to myself if I own stocks in companies I would otherwise shun? Consider just one issue that inspires deep feelings: animal welfare. It...Read More